Replacement Juliette balcony door with UPVC

AliceBanned

This is the curtain lining after one winter! Mould from condensation.

FreeBear

AliceBanned said: tbh it has put me off buying another electric- only property. Despite the move away from fossil fuels I really want GCH and a wood burner and coal lol. 

Coal has shot up dramatically last winter, and it also a dirty fuel (the ash gets everywhere). Wood has the advantage of being renewable, but you need a lot of it to get through the winter months (I have a 2m x 3m shed packed full, and most of it is gone by the spring). In an urban environment, you can also expect to be vilified for polluting the local atmosphere. And like coal, it is a messy fuel - Great if you don't mind bringing in bugs & spiders with each armful of logs.

Gas only has a few years left before it is either banned or we run out of the stuff completely. Hydrogen isn't a viable alternative despite what some pundits claim. So you are left with electric heating - Air/ground source heat pumps are much more efficient than your bog standard electric heaters. For every 1KW of electricity used, you get 2KW to 4KW of heat out. A heat pump works best when coupled with a well insulated home, so that goes quite some way in combating condensation before you even turn the heating on.

Chloe_G

Our current double glazed UPVC balcony door still get loads of condensation on it - on the metal handle and plate, on the metal strip at the bottom and on the window.  To be fair, it is in an area which is hard to ventilate.  If I was replacing it, I would not get metal handles again.